sample

sample

noun

Definition of SAMPLE

1

a number of things selected from a group to stand for the whole <based on a sample of the menu items, we decided that this was the best restaurant in town>

Synonyms cross section, sampler, sampling, selection, slice

Related Words case, example, exemplar, exemplification, illustration, instance, representative, specimen; archetype, classic, locus classicus, paradigm, prototype; microcosm

2

one of a group or collection that shows what the whole is like <this vase is a sample of the high-quality glassware that the glassblowers can produce>

Synonyms case, exemplar, exemplification, illustration, instance, prototype, representative, sample, specimen

Related Words archetype, classic, locus classicus, paradigm; cross section, microcosm; evidence, indication, manifestation, sign